GARDEN STYLE: A BOOK OF IDEAS
by Heidi Howcroft and Marianne Majerus
Mitchell Beazley, £40 ISBN 978-1784727826
A beautifully curated sourcebook of garden styles, with stunning images of gardens around the world from an internationally acclaimed photographer.
Reviewer Natalie Ashbee is a garden consultant and garden writer.
Some may argue that garden styles have barely changed in 1,000 years, with trends simply coming and going along the way, but when you have the gallery of a renowned garden photographer to view, you know you will see something different.
This book is published as a companion to Garden Design: A Book of Ideas by the same authors, but stands solidly on its own feet. Majerus’s photographs draw you in with a rich sense of time and place, and Howcroft elaborates on each with the precision you’d expect from a well-honed landscape architect, giving planting detail and design breakdown in crisp, clear fashion. Case studies illustrate each style, and there are additional chapters on colour, styling and lighting.
In the introduction, Howcraft provides loose style guidelines and advises readers to be realistic but open
